Sounds like BS to me  You can upsize raw files using Digital Photo Professional but there is degradation with any software, photoshop is probably just as good.

...He says Canon has a software that makes it possible to upsize a RAW photo almost unlimited without visible degradation....

Yes, it's a fictional software programmed in the future around the year 3500. By then Canon will have developed a sensor that works analog and not digital anymore hence the possibility to upsize without quality loss.

The "native" resolution equals to a 7.000 TeraPixel image and a 128-bit color depth. One image requires 3 Petabytes in hard drive storage. Once upsized to 100 times the "original" size in order to create a banner that wraps around the world 5 times you need a hard drive that holds about 345 Zettabytes.

The estimated price will be around $7.000 (plus tax). A bargain compared to Nikon's counterpart which probably will sell for $200.000 (plus tax).
I don't know why Canon is usually cheaper than Nikon...

P.S. If the guy IS right, send me a PM with the name of the software company - I hope they have some shares left because then I won't have to do microstock anymore for a living.

almost unlimited?

nice! then I can shoot a single picture of the world and from them zoom in and crop and upsize and create all the future pictures in my port

Yeah you can easily put Google Earth/Maps out of business that way! Awesome idea.

Quote from: microstockphoto.co.uk on July 14, 2010, 09:05

almost unlimited?

nice! then I can shoot a single picture of the world and from them zoom in and crop and upsize and create all the future pictures in my port

Ha ha, Slightly exaggerated maybe...

Quote " The guy"

" But taken in RAW then developed in tiff or tga it would be zoomable up to 500 time before noticeable degredation and I cant for the world figgure out why you would zoom that much and to what use."

500 times  Even if he means 500% it�s quite a lot...

hope he means 500% - even in that case, it depends on the kind of image: some photos with smooth gradients upsize well with special 'fractal' algorithms, while others with lots of detail result in ugly artifacts.